The Decameron Project av New York Times Magazine

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<B>A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by <I>The New York Times Magazine</I> as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s <I>The Decameron.</I></B><BR/><BR/><I>When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.</I><BR/><BR/> In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron”: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables.<BR/><BR/> In March of 2020, the editors of <I>The New York Times Magazine</I> created <I>The Decameron Project</I>, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as